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FIS: Best Risk Management Technology Provider – The essence of the FIS Front Arena solution centres on providing portfolio managers with dashboards that deliver a real time view of positions, risk and performance. Adrian Holt, Director at FIS, identifies that the strength of the solution is the broad range of investment strategies the platform can support: “This coverage is enabled by the vast range of asset classes and associated valuation models which are natively built into the application. Through these models, users have access to a very broad range of analytics and metrics. These are augmented through the integration of other
Anchin, Block & Anchin: Best Accounting Firm for Start-up & Emerging Funds – The increase in market volatility has provided hedge funds with the opportunity to generate returns in excess of the indices. However, despite the positive performance, emerging managers are still struggling to raise capital, as investors remain hesitant to hand mandates down to managers they have not met in person.
Due to the general trend of the markets over the past few years, startup managers found it difficult to raise money, given investors could source better returns elsewhere, usually at a lower cost. The situation has now changed.
UMB Fund Services: Best Administrator – Technology – As managers seek new ways to generate alpha for investors, they look for new and unique opportunities. As a result, funds will look to strong third-party partners who are committed to delivering the comprehensive solutions to support their objectives and the needs of their investors.
“We expect the future to continue to be centred around technologies that allow funds to scale quickly and improve the overall investor experience,” notes Jill Calton, Executive Vice President and Director of Alternative Investments at UMB Fund Services, “Technology demands have increased over the past year, perhaps heightened by
Cowen Outsourced Trading: Best Outsourced Trading Solution Provider – The near immediate global lockdown that resulted because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the shelter-at-home policies that followed has to be the biggest challenge clients have faced this year. The struggles they encountered led to a sharpened need for trading assistance and connectivity.
By A Paris – As the world scrambled to transition to remote working, service providers played a critical role in easing the shift among hedge funds and alternative investment managers. In this, they proved to be of vital support to ensure managers continued to trade and also serve their clients without interruptions.
The winners of this year’s Hedgeweek Awards show they are nimble and can adapt their solutions to managers’ changing needs. In a fast-paced industry where technology demands, sustainable investing considerations and regulatory requirements are constantly on the rise, having access to partners who can alleviate some of that administrative and
CTAs and trend-following hedge funds generated positive returns across a broad range of strategy types last month amid the global market rally – but the sector’s year-to-date performance remains mixed, new data from Société Générale shows.
Swiss-based algorithmic trading software company AlgoTrader has formed a new partnership with UK-based artificial intelligence-powered trading platform AiX.The new partnership will allow institutions using AlgoTrader to onboard seamlessly with AiX, which will provide immediate, trader-to-trader interaction, removing the need for inter-dealer-brokerage through its intuitive and groundbreaking AI trading platform.
In practice, this means that the institution using AlgoTrader will now request a market quote using the AiX platform through a single FIX connection. This request would immediately be sent to multiple market makers simultaneously, who then respond with a price. The best price quote would be relayed back to the
SC Ventures, the innovation and ventures unit of Standard Chartered, and Northern Trust, a provider of asset servicing, have partnered to launch Zodia Custody, an institutional-grade custody solution for cryptocurrencies.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Quantumrock, an AI-driven investment manager, has announced strong performance for its flagship strategy Volatility Special Opportunities Program (VSOP).
Digital asset financial services company BitGo Prime, has launched new value-added Capital Introduction Services (Cap Intro).Through a series of invitation only, quarterly roundtables, BitGo Prime will bring together the institutional investment community, such as asset managers, family offices, sovereign funds, pension funds, endowments and high-net-worth individuals, with hedge fund managers.
BitGo Holdings (BitGo) has already hosted the first Cap Intro Roundtable in the series, with Mike Belshe, CEO, BitGo and Nick Carmi, CEO, BitGo Prime speaking on Investing in Crypto… the Future of Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds.
Presenting managers included:
Dan Morehead, CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Pantera Capital
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